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Mr. Trump said the country needs a system where more people are turned away at the border, rather than allowed to demand lengthy immigration trials.
“It’s so simple. It’s called, ‘I’m sorry, you can’t come in. You have to go in through a legal process,’” the president said.
In Judge DePaolo’s case, she has served on the immigration courts since 1995. Her asylum denial rate — one measure for immigration judges — is actually slightly higher than immigration judges as a whole, though slightly lower than fellow judges in San Diego, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, which tracks judges’ performance.
Earlier this year Judge De Paolo was in the news after she released a high-profile illegal immigrant from detention. The government had accused the illegal immigrant woman of being involved in human smuggling, and arrested her on a street corner in front of her children.
The arrest sparked protests and a national backlash from immigrant-rights groups who said it was harsh.
Judge DePaolo released the woman without requiring bond.
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